New and looking for advise

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Hi there guys,

Im Jeff, probably a similar path here to many others, but Im new (just signed up).

Im in my 40s and have worked in finance for 24 years, been GFC'ed twice, ran a couple of companies and what I realize now is I need several different income streams to even the flow. Lets just say the money people think is in finance is not there anymore.

Ive tried online a few times and I think I am actually ready to take the plunge now. Im more mature and I know what I want.

Can anyone advise on a product that has:

- An in-house sales team to close leads (I dont care if I pass up comms for this)
- A decent front end product, with several back end up-sells
- A ready to go squeeze page that actually converts
- Is available in Australia

To me, this is a good start to a business that I am happy to market and as I said, I would happily take on a couple once the first is up and running.

I am prepared to pay for advertising (because thats the secret the guru's wont tell you) and just want a decent RoI on my ad spend.

Any ideas?
#advise
  • Profile picture of the author Jackson Tan
    I can't recommend anything in Aust.. but from your post.. I foresee there will be many online MLM networkers approaching you..

    PS: I have nothing against MLM.. in fact I been in one too..

    Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    Jeff,

    Your best bet is to set this up yourself. Judging by your post there, I think you'll have no trouble picking up the necessaries to put everything together.

    The type of market you should consider:

    1. Evergreen.
    2. Desperate.
    3. Hard-to-acquire solution.

    To investigate offers, take a look here:

    1. OfferVault.com
    2. PeerflyOffers.com

    You have a choice of 2 great newsletter services:

    1. aWeber
    2. Get Response

    You'll need to learn quite a few things, but it's a worthwhile education and you'll find pretty much all of the answers in and around WF:

    1. Squeeze Page Design
    2. Monetization.
    3. Free Traffic
    4. Paid Traffic.

    Cheers,

    Tom
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  • Profile picture of the author zdebx
    First you say you want to "start a business", then you say you want to market someone's product, so it doesn't really add up...

    I think what you need to do, is figure out how you are going to get consistent, targeted traffic, whether for your own products/services or if you're going to promote anything as an affiliate.

    Traffic is pretty much all what matters, because finding the right offer or perfecting your website is not a big deal.

    I would suggest you do a bit more digging into traffic generation on this forum or possibly in Google and be more specific with regards to what you want to do and how you plan on getting visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtriganza
    Im not sure if its protocol to answer these as I go, but I will.
    Quiet morning so far in the office.

    Jackson, Im OK with that and open to all sorts of business. MLM is just the business model and quite frankly, to some extent it works. As I said in the OP Im just looking to maximize RoI so whatever does that is fine by me.

    Tony, Ive set up and then onsold businesses before. Thank you for the advise, but honestly Im looking to outsource product and sales. I just cant be arsed anymore....

    zdebx, marketing someone else's product IS starting a business. I work in a real world financial firm that is currently small but has expansion interests. We outsource portions of our product suite, so I just dont get your confusion.

    Traffic is all under control. In my time, and having read most of the snake oil and actually having DONE it, traffic is the easy part. Ive shown it to be so in other businesses to. So I disagree with you.

    Im looking for an outsource product and sales function where I can just do the marketing function. I know it exists, Ive seen if before. And again, we use it in our business here to some extent.

    Just to clarify, I work a full time job and am a divorced dad of two young children. I am simply looking to diversify my income streams.

    Thanks - !
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  • Profile picture of the author FreedomBlogger
    Hi there!

    Before anything... Welcome to this cool internet marketing forum!

    Alright ... I see what you are looking for. And, well, let me give you some good advice to get you started.

    I would suggest you to look into Network Marketing Companies that offer digital products and use internet marketing as their main marketing force.

    There are a lot of network marketing companies like this online. You just have to take some good time to do some really good research and find a few that interest you.

    Once you have the right vehicle - it is time to learn all about internet marketing, and marketing in general. There are many products you can invest on, that will teach you the right internet marketing strategies to use.

    One great combination I have learned to use - to help me build a residual income, is blogging and internet marketing with network marketing.

    There are so many people building teams through blogging and internet marketing. You just have to:

    - Find the right vehicle (network marketing company)
    - Invest in your internet marketing and blogging education
    - Start branding yourself, and start building up a following in multiple social networks
    - Network with others in your niche as much as possible
    - Get the right tools for marketing (landing pages, capture pages, a blog, auto-responder, etc)
    - As you learn everything here, and how the online game work, create your own blue-print to follow daily
    - And finally, start taking massive consistent action with everything you need to do!!!

    This would be my best advice to get you started in this industry.

    I hope this helps!!

    Make it happen!!
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  • Profile picture of the author camohit
    Hi, if you are OK with Network Marketing which I believe you are reading your 2nd post, are you looking to market product (s) or a service or both can do? I ask this question because you said traffic is all under control, its the nature of traffic which determines you'll succceed in selling tangible products or a service which people need. I can suggest in both cases.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtriganza
    Thanks FB - excellent advise. Cheers.

    Camohit, I would prefer a physical product.
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  • Profile picture of the author aduttonater
    I would recommend setting all this up yourself. This way you know exactly what you are putting into it. You can make changes as is, when ever you want. If someone else does it for you, you will never know how to do it yourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtriganza
    Hi Aduttonater,

    Honestly, I could, but really Im happy to give up a portion of the profits to outsource the direct B2C sale and product components.

    To me, outsourcing this to focus on traffic makes the most sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author eugenedm
    I would like to help you.

    I wrote a book about how to build email list and sell them products.
    I go over how you can start making money on line with your list.

    The free book is in my signature... Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author James 0
    If you want some ready to go squeeze pages, you can find some in my signature about landing pages and squeeze pages.
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